The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office), was a subordinate organization of the SS. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the The RSHA was created by Heinrich Himmler on September 22, 1939 through the merger of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, or Security Agency), the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo, Secret State Police), and the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police). Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 was a Nazi German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS. Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD Security Service was primarily the Intelligence service of the SS and the NSDAP. The ( contraction of ge heime Sta ats' po' lizei: "Secret State Police" was the official Secret police of Nazi Germany is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the Police forces of Germany, Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland The organization's stated duty was to fight all "enemies of the Reich" within and outside the borders of Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Included within the rubric of "enemies" were Jews, Gypsies and other "racially undesirables" as well as Communists and other secret organization members such as Freemasons; thus the RSHA coordinated activities among a number of different agencies with wide-ranging responsibilities. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ The Romani people (singular Rom, plural Roma as a Noun; also known as Romanies or Roma people) are an ethnic group with origins Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based

The first director of the RSHA was SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, who led the organization until his assassination on June 4, 1942. Obergruppenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA and until 1942 it was the highest Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( 7 March 1904 &ndash 4 June 1942) was an SS - Obergruppenführer, chief Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the Assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich. Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. SS-Obergruppenführer Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner replaced him for the remainder of World War II. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 &ndash 16 October 1946 was a senior Nazi official during World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The director of the RSHA oversaw the Einsatzgruppen death squads that followed the invasion forces of the German army into the eastern territories. Einsatzgruppen ( German: "task forces" "intervention groups" were Paramilitary groups formed by Heinrich Himmler and A death squad is an armed Squad that kills civilians terrorists or guerillas Wehrmacht (literally "defense force" was the name of the unified Armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945

SS-Obergruppenführer Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner — second and final chief of the RSHA

Organization

The organization was divided into seven offices (or Ämter)[[1]]:

• Amt I, Personnel and Organization, headed by SS-Brigadeführer Bruno Streckenbach

• Amt II, Administration, Law, and Finance, headed by SS-Standartenführer Dr. Brigadeführer was an SS rank that was used in Nazi Germany between the years of 1932 and 1945 Bruno Streckenbach ( February 7 1902 – October 28 1977) held the rank of SS- Brigadeführer, when was the head of the RSHA Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in both the S Hans Nockemann.

• Amt III, Inland-SD, headed by SS-Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf, which dealt with ethnic Germans outside of Germany's prewar borders, and matters of culture. Gruppenführer (literally “Group Leader” was an early Paramilitary Rank of the Nazi Party, first created in 1925 as a senior Otto Ohlendorf ( February 4, 1907 &ndash June 7, 1951) was a German SS - Gruppenführer and head of the interior division This page describes the origins and historical use of the term Volksdeutsche. The German language (both as an official language and as a minority language is spoken in a number of countries and territories in West and Central Europe

• Amt IV, Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), headed by SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller. The ( contraction of ge heime Sta ats' po' lizei: "Secret State Police" was the official Secret police of Nazi Germany Heinrich Müller (born April 28, 1900, date of death unknown aka "Gestapo Müller" was head of the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, one of the main executioners of the Holocaust, was head of the Amt IV section called Referat IV B4. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as

• Amt V, Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), under SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe. is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the Police forces of Germany, Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland This was the "Criminal Police", which dealt with non-political serious crimes, such as rape, murder, and arson.

• Amt VI, Ausland-SD, led first by SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Jost, and later by SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD Security Service was primarily the Intelligence service of the SS and the NSDAP. Walter (correctly Walther) Friedrich Schellenberg ( January 16[[ 910]] &ndash March 31[[ 952]] was a German Nazi who This was the foreign intelligence service of the SS.

• Amt VII, Written Records, overseen by SS-Brigadeführer Professor Dr. Franz Six. Dr Franz Alfred Six ( August 12 1909 in Mannheim - July 9 1975 in Bolzano) was a Nazi official who was This was responsible for "ideological" tasks, the creation of anti-semitic and anti-masonic propaganda. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people

Amt IV, the Gestapo, and Amt V, the Kripo, together constituted the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei — SIPO). It was the SIPO that did most of the work in rounding up Jews, Gypsies and other people deemed to be enemies of the Reich and deporting them to the concentration and extermination camps in German Occupied Poland and Ukraine.

The RSHA also supplied security forces on an "as needed" basis to local SS and Police Leaders. SS and Police Leader (SS- und Polizeiführer was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS during and prior to World War II

Further reading

• Wildt, Michael. Generation of the Unbound: The Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2002 (Engl. , in original German, Hamburg: 2002). ISBN 9653081624.

External links

• Wiesenthal Centre - Reichssicherheitshauptamt